RE: building kernel 1.1 (or even .01)

["Bell, Brad" <bbell maharam com>]

This a snipit of the output:

After executing: rpm -i eqnc-3.38-1.i386.rpm I get screen full of errors
ending with the
following:


/eqnx.o: ./eqnx.o: No such file or directory
sstty.c:46: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
ssmkn.c:1162: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
u4.c: In function `main':
u4.c:8263: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
screen.c: In function `getvmn':
screen.c:193: warning: multi-character character constant
screen.c:193: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of
data type
screen.c:196: warning: multi-character character constant
screen.c:196: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion
screen.c: At top level:
screen.c:592: warning: static declaration for `addfield' follows non-static
screen.c:612: warning: static declaration for `disp_field' follows
non-static
screen.c:636: warning: static declaration for `data_value' follows
non-static
screen.c:815: warning: `endstroke' was declared implicitly `extern' and
later `static'
screen.c:762: warning: previous declaration of `endstroke'
screen.c:840: warning: static declaration for `right_justify' follows
non-static
screen.c:857: warning: static declaration for `right_justify_zero_fill'
follows non-static
screen.c:1223: warning: static declaration for `getline' follows non-static
screen.c:1645: warning: static declaration for `status_line' follows
non-static


I was able to output the following:

building and installing driver and utilities ...
rm -f eqnx.o
rm -f sst.o
rm -f linux.o
cc -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -pipe -m486 -DMODULE -DLINUX
-DRS422 -DSSM -DRAMP_LINUX -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES  -D__SMP__ -DSVR3
-DMIDNIGHT -I../include -I./ -I/usr/src/linux/include -c sst.c
rm -f ssmkn.o linux_mkn.o
rm -f sstty ssmkn
rm -f /usr/bin/sstty
rm -f /usr/bin/ssmkn
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -I../include
-I../drv sstty.c -o sstty
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -DRS422
-I../include -I../drv -c ssmkn.c
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -I../include
-I../drv -c linux_mkn.c
cc -o ssmkn ssmkn.o linux_mkn.o
rm -f *.o
rm -f ssdiag
rm -f /usr/bin/ssdiag /usr/bin/sscode
cc -g -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -DRS422 -DCHRDRVR -I./include
-I../../include -c u4.c
cc -g -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -DRS422 -DCHRDRVR -I./include
-I../../include -c ports.c
cc -g -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -DRS422 -DCHRDRVR -I./include
-I../../include -c screen.c
cc -g -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -DRS422 -DCHRDRVR -lncurses u4.o screen.o
ports.o -ossdiag
cc -g -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -DRS422 -DCHRDRVR -I./include
-I../../include -c ccode.c
cc -g -pipe -m486 -DSVR3 -DLINUX -DRS422 -DCHRDRVR -lncurses ccode.o
screen.o -osscode
^MEQNX: mkn--open of /dev/eqn failed

-----Original Message-----
From: John Summerfield [mailto:summer@os2.ami.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 5:39 PM
To: guinness-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: building kernel 1.1 (or even .01) 


> What are the requirements needed on the system to build the kernel. I an
> trying to install a modem board (Equinox) and the RPM is trying to create
a
> device (/dev/enq).
> 
> I am told that if I have everything I need to create a kernel, I sould be
> able to create the device.
> 
> # rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-utils-2.2.16-22
> kernel-source-2.2.16-22
> kernel-smp-2.2.16-22
> kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-22
> kernel-2.2.16-22
> kernelcfg-0.6-9
> kernel-headers-2.4.0-0.26

Creating a kernel and creating a device are unrelated activities.
Show us what happens when you fail to create /dev/enq

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